'New Perspectives on Asia' highlights the research of junior CSIS staff and interns on issues that are quietly shaping the world's most dynamic region. The United States and China are competing for ...

The demographic dynamics in India and China have major impacts on global economic development. Seeking to reassess the demographic race between the two countries with a focus on human capital and ...

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, the co-director of the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project at the Wharton School of Business, ...

While the fertility rate in Tanzania has been declining over the last several decades, the population growth rate remains high at three %, putting pressure on service delivery. Accelerating fertility ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...

AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...

How policymakers respond to Europe’s many challenges—from Russian aggression to sluggish economic growth to the shift to clean energy – will shape the continent for decades to come. In the face of ...

Healthy longevity means a state of good physical, cognitive, and social functioning throughout a person's lifespan. There is an opportunity to leverage population aging for health, societal, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper explores, theoretically and empirically, the role of the declining gender gap in education in the demographic transition and the ...

This paper establishes the empirical relationship between the fiscal policy, demographic transition and public spending or expenditure on education in India with special reference to higher education.

Due to sanctions and other factors, the Kremlin faces economic limitations. This is likely to hinder its efforts to impose policies aimed at combating the long-term demographic decline in Russia, ...